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Hey, it's Megan Garber, one of the co-hosts from How to Know What's Real.

We're excited to share with you a special series drawn from past seasons of the how-to series.

For the next few weeks, we'll be revisiting episodes around the theme of winding down,

recharging, and making space for the things we care

about. This episode is from Season 5, How to Keep Time, and is called How to Rest. Co-hosts, Ian Bogus

and Becca Rashid, explore the effects that slowing down can have on our creativity and how understanding those benefits

may help us learn how to rest better.

You know, Becca, so like even though I rest in the sense of going sideways and unconscious

at night,

I don't feel like I rest enough or maybe that I don't rest properly.

And I mean, maybe I don't even know what rest is even.

Same for me.

I feel like between sleep and work, those breaks that I need have never really been incorporated in my life.

You know, I was thinking about it, Becca, and rest is really a cornerstone concept in Western civilization.

Like, it's in the Bible, right at the start of Genesis.

There's supposed to be a Sabbath, a day of rest, a break from making and using to doing something else.

And what is that something else?

You know, in the religious sense,

it's a time for worship, for God.

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